21 comments:

1. It would be really nice to see a semi-frequently updated progress bar (live is best) with # of dollars and # of contributions for the fundraising.

Part of the excitement created by sites like Kickstarter (and the Humble Indie Bundle and so on) is seeing how your small contribution adds to the whole. A donate button feels more like throwing your money into a dark hole (a very reasonable and worthwhile hole, but a hole nonetheless). Take advantage of some video game psychology and give us that "level up" feedback when we contribute! :)

2. I know you don't want to oversubscribe yourselves, but would you consider doing a similar funding drive for Numpy support? PLEASE???

Totally agree with stan about progress bar. Recent novacut's donation campaign showed importance of that a lot (since people saw that they need to hurry up with fundings and did lots of them in last couple of days).

Awesome! Infact I regard Python 3 as much more important as any other features you could add now. 10% more performance is not nearly in the same league as Python3 support. Will happily spend some money on this.

cpython3 is a fork of cpython2, but here you intend to support both versions with the same codebase. Does not this make the task much harder, and peeking into cpython3 code for guidance less useful? Also, isn't it possible that the resulting large set of switch (PYVERSION) {} statements will make the code less readable and maintainable?

Anyway, I have full faith in your assessment of the best approach, but I am still interested in your explanation. :)

a) please, please get the pages lac showed in her lightning talk at pycon.uk online. - There are pictures of people in it, and it is easier to donate to people then to something abstract - there is text what happened - there is text that anonymous donation is possible

b) please, work on the feedback. It is CRUCIAL to show the actual state. Giving 5€ and nothing happens is dull. Giving 5€ and a number goes up - good. Giving 500€ and a rendered bar moves a pixel - awesome!

c) I found the Python3PyPy fundraiser easily. I did not find the numpypy fundraiser. Please, put lacs pages up :) if I can vote for them somewhere, please let me know.

Hi! Please create the same kind of bucket for numpy support. I'm a big fan of Py3k, but I'm an even bigger fan of numpy - and I need it for my work. I'll donate to Py3k now, but I'll donate a bigger sum to both when I see the new bucket.

Hi Stefan. There is noone who steers direction in PyPy. Since this is open source, people either work on what they like, because it's fun or scratches their itch. Note that Python 3 work is something that people expressed interest in funding -- if they fund it enough, why wouldn't developers work on it? It's more interesting than most jobs.

With regard to C extensions - it's good enough for many people, like quora to run on PyPy. Improving the support is boring and frustrating, so I don't think anyone would be willing to invest significant amount of his *free time* into that. However, feel free to speak with your money, you know how to find me.

I realize that I came across in a somewhat obnoxious way. Sorry for that - I simply did not realize that PyPy is a true hobbyist project (at least currently).I wish I could contribute funding but though I am using Python a lot at work, we are a National Lab and struggling to keep our government funding ourselves.